On January 3, the United States carried out a direct military operation against Venezuela. US forces bombed targets in and around Caracas, struck the electrical grid, killed over one hundred people, and abducted Venezuela’s sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife and National Assembly deputy Cilia Flores.

Federico Fuentes, socialist journalist, writer for Green Left and editor of Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, joined the Green Left Show to discuss the current situation in Venezuela and how we can build the solidarity movement here in Australia.

Fred is addressing two public forums co-hosted by Green Left and Socialist Alliance on Venezuela next week, in Naarm/Melbourne on Thursday, January 29 and in Gadigal Country/Sydney on Saturday, January 31.

Details here: Naarm/Melbourne: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026-01/event/venezuela-latin-america-trumps-war-latin-america

Gadigal Country/Sydney: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026-01/event/forum-trump-out-venezuela-hands-latin-america

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Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance member and long-time solidarity activist with the Kurdish liberation struggle, joins Green Left Radio on 3CR to discuss the grave situation in Northern Syria and why Rojava demands our solidarity.

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This is a recording of the session on "Organising workers in today’s economy" at Ecosocialism 2025.

Speakers included: Jiselle Hanna (then newly elected secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Victorian branch and long-time trade unionist), Jacqueline Kriz (Socialist Alliance member and former President of Geelong Trades Hall) and Kumarr (a labour researcher from Singapore).

See more recordings at: www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/analysis/videos-and-podcasts-ecosocialism-2025-conference and find out more about the Ecosocialism conferences at: ecosocialism.org.au.

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This recording is from the "Always was, always will be! First Nations fight back for sovereignty" panel at Ecosocialism 2025. You can watch a video of this session at: https://www.youtube.com/live/f2rccgsH3fM.

The panel featured: Senator Lidia Thorpe (Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung activist and Independent Senator for Victoria), Celeste Liddle (Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, union organiser, freelance writer and activist), Raelene Cooper (Mardudhunera woman, former Chair of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, founder of Save our Songlines), and Arama Rata (Māori researcher, writer, and organiser whose work centres on Indigenous solidarities and Internationalism; anti-colonial methodologies; and liberatory pedagogies).

See more at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/analysis/videos-and-podcasts-ecosocialism-2025-conference

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This is a recording from Ecosocialism 2025: Ecosocialism not barbarism conference held in Naarm/Melbourne September 5-7, 2025.

The panel featured: Yousef Alreemawi (award-winning Palestinian-Australian musician, thinker, and storyteller), Jordy Silverstein (historian and writer and a member of the Loud Jew Collective) and Markela Panegyres (activist, artist and advocate for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement within the university sector).

More recordings can be found here: www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/analysis/videos-and-podcasts-ecosocialism-2025-conference and initial information about the coming Ecosocialism 2026 conference can be found here: ecosocialism.org.au

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This is an audio recording of the opening panel - Ecosocialism not barbarism - at the Ecosocialism 2025 conference held in Naarm/Melbourne September 5-7, 2025.

This panel featured: Sue Bolton (Sue Bolton is a veteran socialist activist, member of Socialist Alliance National Executive, and councillor on Merri-bek City Council), Ammar Ali Jan (Ammar Ali Jan, general secretary of the Haqooq-e-Khalq (Peoples Rights) Party and a member of the Council of Advisors of the Progressive International), Cyn Huang (Cyn Huang is member of the Bread & Roses caucus inside the Democratic Socialists of America).

Recordings of Ecosocialism 2025 can be found here: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/analysis/videos-and-podcasts-ecosocialism-2025-conference

Ecosocialism 2026 will be held in Magan-djin/Brisbane September 11-13, 2026.

Surya McEwen and Madeleine Habib both participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which aimed to break Israel's blockade of Gaza and deliver urgently needed aid to starving Palestinians. They spoke to the Green Left Show about the impact of the flotilla and how to keep building the Palestine solidarity movement.

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Sydney's Inner West Council (IWC) claims its "Fairer Futures" plan will help address the dire housing affordability crisis by building tens of thousands of new homes. But housing campaigners are warning that affordable homes will be demolished to make way for expensive, luxury apartments.

Erina Delinicolas and Duncan Roden are renters at 50–52 Warren Road in Marrickville, the first site slated for demolition under the new plan. They joined the Green Left Show to discuss why the IWC's pro-developer plan is flawed and suggest alternatives that put people before profit.

Both are involved in the Better Future Coalition, a group of Inner West residents who are campaigning against the Fairer Future plan, calling for more affordable and public housing, genuine consultation with residents and a better planning system.

Get involved with the Better Future Coalition by visiting their website: https://betterfutureco.com.au/

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